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contribution to Japanese music

...named Jōhide, who was a student of Hōsui, himself a student of Kenjun, developed his own version of such music. He added compositions in more popular idioms and scales, named himself
Yatsuhashi Kengyō, and founded the Yatsuhashi school of koto. The title Yatsuhashi was adopted later by another apparently unrelated school to the far south in the Ryukyu Islands.